Miami County KS Archives Biographies.....William Wright, James L. Wright 1814 - July 22, 1889
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Author: Cutler's History of The State of Kansas

Miami County, Part 18

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/miami/miami-co-p.18.html

JAMES L. WRIGHT, farmer, Section 34, P.O. Paola, was born in Delaware, in 1814. 
In early childhood removed with his parents to Maryland and when ten years of 
age to Wayne County, Ind. He continued to reside in Indiana until 1859 when he 
migrated to Kansas, arriving in this State October 7 of that year, he had 
previously visited the State and passed a portion of 1855 and 1857 here, but 
did not make his home here til 1859. He located in Stanton, Miami County, where 
he was engaged in farming some ten years. he then moved to Paola Township, 
Section 34, now a part of the town of Valley, where he has a fine farm of 204 
acres. Mr. Wright is one of the pioneers of Kansas and has had the pleasure of 
witnessing the rapid settlement and development of the State and has shared the 
hardships and trials incident to the times. During the Price raid he did 
miltary duty in defense of his State.

Additional Comments:
In the interest of continuity and to help anyone researching this Wright family 
here is a short biographical mention of William Wright, father of James L. 
Wright. 

http://www.waynet.org/community/greens_fork/greensforkhistory.htm

5th paragraph, last two lines;

William Wright, from Maryland, in 1824, settled 2 miles southeast from town, 
where he died in 1854, aged 74.

Also from Waynet;  
http://www.waynet.org/people/genealogy/greensfork-south/s-z.htm

Wright, William--1779-1854
Wright, Celia----1791-1850



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